Re: What am I not understanding about $GLOBALS['myvar'] vs global $myvar?

variables inside single quotes are not evaluated! This is the same variable: echo $GLOBALS['var']; $key='var'; echo $GLOBALS[$key]; With $GLOBALS['$key'] you refer to an invalid variable name $'$key' PS: Output of echo "GLOBALS['$key'] = $value<br>\n"; is right because $key is in double quotes (the outermost qoutes) Daevid Vincent wrote:

Actually I didn't. ;-) $GLOBALS[$key] is incorrect and depricated AFAIK. $GLOBALS['$key'] (with the single quotes) is the proper way to write these types of associative arrays/hashs. For shits and giggles however I tried your way and it made no difference to the code. Still didn't work right.

-----Original Message----- From: Marek Kilimajer [mailto:kilimajer@webglobe.sk] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:16 PM To: Daevid Vincent Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] What am I not understanding about $GLOBALS['myvar'] vs global $myvar? Daevid Vincent wrote:

This one does NOT work the way I would expect it to? function clearContactVars() { foreach ($GLOBALS as $key => $value) { if ( substr($key,0,8) == "contact_" ) { //echo "GLOBALS['$key'] = $value<br>\n"; $GLOBALS['$key'] = "";

I did not read your whole message, but you very likely mean $GLOBALS[$key] = ""; (no single quotes)

} } clearPostVars(); }

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